What's the funniest mishearing of song lyrics you've had?
What's the funniest mishearing of song lyrics you've had?
Tears in Heaven
[chorus]
I must be strong == I must destroy
Lets hear em
What's the funniest mishearing of song lyrics you've had?
Tears in Heaven
[chorus]
I must be strong == I must destroy
Lets hear em
No dogs orgasm in the classroom
Another Brick in the Wall (part 2)
"all in all it's just a" - "hol ihn hol ihn unters Dach"
"Fetch him under the roof". And it has a nice story to go along with it that the sound engineer mixing the song was German, heard that line and then committed suicide under the roof of the studio because he was reminded of the abuse he suffered as a child in an orphanage.
Total fabrication by the German documentary show "Quarks & Co" to demonstrate how one can be manipulated to hear stuff that isn't there. To this day I can't not hear it when listening to the song.
What is Lady Gaga saying in Scheiße or is that hokey-Deutsch?
Blinded By the Light
Roll up like a douche Rev up like a deuce
🎵 Another boner in the night 🎵
If you want a big list of these check out https://www.kissthisguy.com/
Here's one from there
Like a virgin touched for the thirty-first time. Artist: Madonna Song: Like a Virgin Real Lyric: Like a virgin touched for the very first time.
CUT MY LIFE INTO PIZZAS
THIS IS MY PLASTIC FORK
BACON STRIPS, AND EXTRA CHEESE PLEASE
I remember the subtitles for Smash Mouth - Walking on the Sun said "It's like kitty fat, it retracts before impact" which was nuts, I had the CD, and it was "any fad". They didn't use to vet subtitles on MTV. There were orders, but that's all I remember.
Had a friend who's little bro thought "Liberate my madness" from Liberate by Slipknot was "Never eat bananas".
José Feliciano - Feliz Navidad.
Sounds like he is saying 'release mum and dad.' interlace with him singing 'I want to wish you a merry christmas'
I was in stitches at the dinner table when I heard it. Trying to tell my brother while crying and hyperventilating with laughter made it even better.
I hear this song in my head every time I see a "for lease" sign...
For lease navidad.
It's in our nature to destroy ourselves
It's in our nature to kill ourselves
It's in our nature to kill each other
It's in our nature to kill, kill, kill
That's the actual lyrics of Blood Brothers from Papa Roach, some people hear "Human Nature" instead of our nature, which is still the same meaning. However I once read someone misshearing of that lyrics and I can never unheard it, this is what I hear now (and so will you if you read):
Send the ninjas to destroy ourselves
Send the ninjas to kill ourselves
Send the ninjas to kill each other
Send the ninjas to kill, kill, kill
If you like peeing on koalas and getting caught in the rain
Selena Gomez - Good For You - "I'm 14 carats. I'm 14 carets I'm farting carrots. I'm farting carrots."
"Blank Space" by Taylor Swift
Got a long list of ex-lovers
"Lonely Starbucks lovers"
Well, I'm glad I wasnt alone on that one
Head Automatica - I Shot William H. Macy
What my friends and I heard when the album dropped: "Yeah, yeah... I put a sausage in your little hand!"
What the actual line says: "Yeah yeah, I'll put assassins in your little head."
Although my all-time favorite is and will forever be:
"Excuse me, while I kiss this guy" - Jimmy Hendrix
Love Head Automatica (and Glassjaw!)
I’mma pull up I Shot William H. Macy now.
"Hey now, you're a rockstar, get laaaiid!"
Oh, it's actually get PAID.
Til
I've always sang the first chorus as get paid and the second chorus as get laid without thinking about it.
Back nearly 20 years ago Disney California Adventure (Anaheim, Cali) had this interactive exhibit where you did various things in line with the Disney animated kids movies. One was playing the Seven Dwarfs "Heigh ho, heigh ho, it's off to work we go..."
In a little alcove in front of a group of friends was another group of cute mid-teen little Latino girls. They were dressed somewhat provocatively for the average Disney guest and all were wearing bold makeup, (not judging, but they stood out). The typical Spanish accent was prevalent with the silent "h". Their innocent rendition as they sang along was hilarious. Happy as they could be they were singing, "I hoe, I hoe, it's off to work we go..."
Hamster. A dentist!
Warrior! Steven Segal!
Crimean River
I want to break trees
Who'll stop Lorraine?
I thought it was about a lady who fell down a hill.
Have you ever seen Lorraine?
I always heard "Who shot Lorraine"
Brimful of Asha by Cornershop.
The title and the lyric are both "brimful of Asha", which has a double meaning. In the singer's native language 'Asha' means hope, and is also the name of an iconic Bollywood singer/dancer.
What I heard was "grim poodle basher". Obviously it wasn't right, but I couldn't figure out the actual words just by listening harder.
Heads Will Roll - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Casserole, casserole, on the wall.
Baking Carrot Biscuits != Taking Care of Business
Loled
She's got electric boobs... Something something... B-b-b-benny and the jetsssss
I wish I didn't have to pee be so bad.
-blink 182 - Wendy Clear
and the most prominent
I wore cologne walk alone to get the feeling right
-blink 182 - What's My Age Again.
Though sometimes when Tom and Mark performs live, they butchered some lines for some dumb jokes lol.
The Toadies "Possum Kingdom"
I'm not gonna lie
I'll not be a gentleman
Behind the boathouse
I'll show you mydark secretdashiki
"Carry a laser" - Mr. Mister
I had a friend in grade school that argued with me about the lyrics to Kenny Rodgers The Gambler. He was loudly and angrily certain the song said "You gotta know how to hold 'em" and would NOT hear my suggestion that it is really "when to hold 'em".
The next day he quietly told me I was right.
I just can't understand 90% of lyrics.
Im a big "subtitle" guy so I hear you 🧐
Working with guys who's 1st language isn't English singing "Take me to Monkey Town", instead of "Take me to Funky Town."
The ultimate misheard lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUAaHkGpJy8&t=32
Ken Lee!
What have I become my Swedish friend?
My aunt once told me when one of my cousins was like 4 or 5, he was singing along to Band on the Run, but saying "Hand on the rug"
Killswitch Engage - My Curse
This is my curse
This is my purse
Billy Joel - She's Always a Woman
She hides like a child but she's always a woman to me == a weasel-woman to me
Simon & Garfunkel; Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you will know
=
She’s a slut more than you could know—whoa, who, whoa!
That’s “The Graduate Remix”
There be a hot tub in the town of Berlin .
From high school until two or three weeks ago, I thought the lyrics for Limp Bizkit's "Just Like This" were concerned about John Goodman's weight.
"...and we make sure that John Goodman beats fat"
The song randomly popped into my head a few weeks ago, and I was like "wait, that can't be right". So I looked up the correct lyrics which are "And we made sure that John kept them beats phat"
I just breathed a sigh of relief that John Goodman is not the subject of a Limp Bizkit song…
Twenty years ago, Buffalo, NY. The Fat of the Land by Prodigy was still huge. A dancer in a strip club thought "Smack my Bitch Up" was "Snap my Picture". True story.
Suffragette City:
"The smell of fat chicks just puts a smile on my face"
One of the earliest websites I remember was like scuse me while I miss this guy dot com and it was people sharing what you're looking for. Check the way back machine
One I heard was "scuse me while I kiss this guy"
Autocorrect on my comment. This is correct.
I was driving one day, in the early 1990s, singing along with Elton John, "love I feel it in my hands, I can tell by the things I could do with another man.." as I had since I was a little kid, when I suddenly realized that probably wasn't what he was saying. It still sounds like that is what he is saying.
I see quite a lot of Elton John in these answers, maybe he just didn't enunciate.
My sister-in-law thought the chorus of Metallica's Battery was "backdoor raid". Now I can't unhear it.
I also thought in Live and Let Die Paul sang, "give an Alabama yell" instead of "give the other feller hell."
"living like a lover with a red iPhone" - Pour some sugar on me, 1987
Not me personally, but I worked with a guy that always thought Secret Agent Man was Secret Asian Man.
My wife’s childhood:
“My anus can’t take it I’m addicted to love”.
Robert Palmer.
Mine is when I sing, and I can’t remember what I say, but something like “kissing your neck, back, n’dem titties” to Labrinths Still Don’t Know My Name. Although I’m still fairly certain those lyrics to be correct 👍
Used to listen to this on the youth club juke box as a 10yo!
Bring me a pile of love!
I wanna be your big Suburban.
There's a bathroom on the right.
Call Me Maybe / Carly Rae Jepsen
You took your time with the call
I took no time with the fall
You gave me nothing at all
But still, you're in my way
I beg and borrow and steal
Swear to Satan it's real At first sight, and it's real
I didn't know I would feel it
But it's in my way
Yep. Knew it was wrong, but that's what I heard. TIL what the actual lyrics are.
Another Carly Rae one:
Fake Mona Lisa
He was born in Vegas
The way she sings it, it sounds like
It's morning fa**ots